Socks!

I found a pattern for socks so easy a monkey could do them, and got about 12 rows done last night. Yay! I'll take pics later, because it's dark and rainy here today....

Man, am I lazy

I really want to start a sock from New Pathways for Sock Knitters (the Spiraling Coriolis in particular), but my head hurts from all the math involved. It made me realize I'm not a make-your-own-pattern kind of girl. At all. I want to pick up a pattern, where someone else figured out all the math, and sit down and knit. Period. Those people enjoy it, maybe even get paid for it...and I love them, because I would not knit anything more than a garter or stockinette stitch scarf if it wasn't for them. So I don't know how much use I'm going to get out of this book now. Maybe I should find a new home for it....but for now it can collect dust on a shelf. Boo.

BTW, when I was measuring my feet for the sock worksheet, I found out my right foot is a quarter inch shorter than my left. One of those weird facts you don't need to know but will probably never forget now. If I ever randomly run into you somewhere, you'll say, "Oh yeah, you're the person with one foot a quarter inch shorter than the other!" Ha!

Back to the Sampler Stole!

Many thanks

Thank you to everyone who commented on my shawl! It was a big hit at Stitch-In on Tuesday. On the needles now is the Sampler Stole...I thought I wanted to do a non-lace project next, but this shawl is on size 3 needles which feel huge after using size 0 for the border of Med. Lace!


Also being started are the Spiraling Coriolis socks from New Pathways for Sock Knitters, in a beautiful variegated brown yarn I received ages ago from a secret pal:


I was hoping to be able to start the Cat's Face Lace Socks, but Heather (who is dyeing my yarn) wasn't at Stitch-In this month, so hopefully I'll be able to start them next month as they are intended to be a Christmas present!

Unless they used Amazon women for models....

...my shawl blocked out really big!

Done!

I can't believe it's finished! I think the blocking took 45 minutes and 1,638,927 pins. Sorry you can't see it better in these photos, but I'll post pics tomorrow wearing it.




Mediterranean Lace Shawl from A Gathering of Lace
Started: April 9, 2007
Finished: September 14, 2007
Yarn: Grignasco MerinoSilk, a little over 2 hanks

Weigh-In Wednesday

Eh, a day late again with weigh-in, not that it's good news...up again. Don't know if I'm going to have the willpower to get back on track anytime soon. Sir B and I are having some issues that are taking the energy right out of me (except for eating). Rhet mentioned I try Alli, but sadly any diet pill would mess with my thyroid condition, so that's out.

In good news, I am almost done with the shawl! TWO more rows to go! Woohoo!

Weigh-In Wedn....Thursday

I gained again. This isn't going well. I resigned myself to the fact I probably won't lose much between now and November, and bought some cute clothes at CJ Banks for vacation...and it was all on sale! I got three skirts, five tops, and two pairs of capris for $130. No kidding!

I'm on row 31 of the shawl border...over halfway done! Pictures won't be forthcoming until it's done and off the needles, unless you want photos posted of a green blob.